Example sentences of "[pron] for [art] [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus challenged the Jews of his day with a searching question : ‘ How can you have faith so long as you receive honour from one another , and care nothing for the honour that comes from him who alone is God ? ’ |
| 2 | if nothing for the fact that the message that is coming home loud and clear is this request for clarification , the advent of certainty , one way or another . |
| 3 | It never occurred to me for a moment that she had planned it all in cold blood . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Would you really , a man of your enormous wealth , sue someone like me for a sum that to you is little more than pocket-money , but to me represents my very livelihood ? |
| 5 | The book is intended for undergraduates in their second or third year of a philosophy degree , but this need not necessarily deter readers with other backgrounds ; e.g. , my father claims to be able to understand it , though perhaps he would not thank me for the suggestion that he is representative . |
| 6 | I could n't help smiling at that ; she still had n't quite forgiven me for the fact that her remedy had n't been effective . |
| 7 | And what 's more , we 'll have the power to charge them for the inconvenience that they cause us . |
| 8 | In an extreme case , someone may act on them for the reason that , or on the principle that , ‘ a little bit of what you fancy does you good ’ . |
| 9 | We must prepare ourselves for the possibility that the situation for homosexual women and men will also worsen in our own countries . |
| 10 | WE are going to stop apologising to ourselves for the fact that it takes money to run this organisation . |
| 11 | I must prepare you for a surprise that will not , I hope , upset you too much . |
| 12 | I 'll tell you for a fact that Steven wo n't go for Ollie tonight , it 's Paul that 's gon na go for him . |
| 13 | I 'm telling you for a fact that Steven wo n't touch you . |
| 14 | We praise you for the way that you have assigned these to the craftsmen of all kinds who have been involved . |
| 15 | She decided she would say it , noticed how her body rearranged itself for the tone that would come . |
| 16 | Sharpe now anticipated another battle ; one for a crossroads that linked two armies . |
| 17 | I see no reason whatsoever for a council that will still have two and a half million pounds in balances after the labour group proposals , why on earth we need to build another hundred thousand pounds into the budget , paid for by er council tax payers to provide for unforeseen expenditure . |
| 18 | The Bengali lady who enrolled in an English cookery class , so that she could provide English food for some of her son 's chums at school , is likely next to take a GCSE in English and help prepare herself for a job that may be just around the corner . |
| 19 | I teased him for a bit that I did n't get it , it went for so much . |
| 20 | She despised him for an affair that had begun and ended thirty years before . |
| 21 | However , normally one contact man from each of the units is transferred to the staff of the project manager and is responsible to him for the work that is done in his unit . |
| 22 | There was a cool mockery in his deep voice , and she turned to glare at him , hating him for the fact that he seemed to be deriving amusement from her discomfort . |
| 23 | ‘ He wanted to swop her for a guarantee that he would not be arrested ’ |
| 24 | It did not occur to her for a moment that she might not be right . |
| 25 | What possible reason could a sane man have for thanking her for an evening that had never happened ? |
| 26 | Yeah but it 's a lot in n it for a film that you never know is gon na |
| 27 | Hard work , but worth it for the feeling that you might be helping producers to realise that there is a discerning market out there , and not one that reacts blindly to the word ‘ organic ’ . |
| 28 | When I get back to base , bruised and battered , I brace myself for a reception that will make the Day of Judgment look like a Sunday School picnic . |
| 29 | Those radicals ( among whom Gaitskell was , oddly , not numbered ) who wanted to abolish the public schools , or amalgamate them somehow into the maintained system , persuaded themselves for a time that if this were done , and if everyone had a chance to take the 11 + and compete for a place at a grammar school , then justice would have been done and educational standards would be secure . |
| 30 | And for all he knew , pro-Syrian elements , the Lebanese Forces and other narco-terrorist groups were also still looking to revenge themselves for the damage that he and the Asmar cell had done to their drugs , arms and hostage-taking operations in Beirut . |